Detachable Product Label Stack for Planogram Order
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional product labels for stores often fail to maintain order during shipment and placement due to unreliable fasteners, leading to unintended alterations in label arrangement.
Innovation Solution
An ordered stack of bound sheets comprising printed product information sheets, where each sheet is securely attached to others based on planogram data, allowing for easy detachment and reattachment according to a predetermined order, using methods like glue binding, spiral binding, or tearable edges.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If conventional fasteners (tie, rubber band, plastic band) are used to hold product labels together, then the labels can be delivered and stored as a set, but the fasteners fail to maintain the order of labels during shipment, placement, and handling
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the bound sheet into individual product information sheets that are sequentially detachable. Each sheet can be separated from the stack in order, allowing employees to take one sheet at a time while maintaining the integrity and order of the remaining stack. This segmentation eliminates the need for unreliable fasteners while preserving order maintenance.
Solution Approach 2:
The product information sheets are pre-bound in the correct order before delivery to the store. This preliminary ordering ensures that when employees detach sheets sequentially, they automatically receive them in the correct sequence for placement, eliminating the need for employees to consult planogram data to determine label placement order.
2Ease of operation
If product labels are provided in a predetermined order on separate sheets with fasteners, then the labels can be delivered as a complete set, but the order may be unintentionally altered after the fastener is removed
Solution Approach 1:
The bound sheet is segmented into individually detachable product information sheets with tearable edges. This allows employees to easily separate and remove one sheet at a time in sequential order without needing to remove any fasteners, maintaining both ease of operation and order integrity simultaneously.
3Adaptability or versatility
If employees must consult planogram data to determine where to place product labels, then flexible placement is possible, but time is lost and errors may occur
Solution Approach 1:
The bound sheet is pre-ordered according to planogram data before delivery to the store. This preliminary arrangement embeds the placement sequence directly into the physical structure of the bound sheet, allowing employees to simply detach and place sheets in sequential order without consulting planogram data, thereby reducing placement time and errors while maintaining placement flexibility.
Data Source
AI summary
An ordered stack of bound sheets may comprise a set of printed product information sheets. An individual bound sheet may comprise a single printed product information sheet or may comprise a plurality of printed product information sheets. Each of the individual printed product information sheets may be detached from the ordered stack of bound sheets in the order in which the printed product information sheets are presented. The individual printed product information sheets (which are detached from the ordered stack in order) may be connected to structures in the stores based on a planogram for a set of products for display in the store. The order of the printed product information sheets may match an order in which the sheets are positioned based on the planogram.